Esmé quibbling leaking into Authorial Intent

From: L. Manning Vines <lmanningvines@hotmail.com>
Date: Tue Oct 29 2002 - 02:38:31 EST

Jim said: "The meaning of your text resided outside the language of your
text -- namely yours and Scottie's experience, which was different from
mine. 'Housewife' has never meant anything to me other than a married woman
who didn't work outside the home."

Yet also: "Seymour's wife was married, and didn't work outside the home. To
me, that's the definition of a housewife. The word does carry other
connotations that may or may not apply."

Housewife has never meant anything to you but a wife who doesn't work
outside the home.
You know that the word does carry other connotations that may or may not
apply.

?

Perhaps Tim's use of the word was not your preferred use, but being aware of
the use that isn't your standard one counts as meaning something.

The meaning of his text resided well within it, and knowing the language as
well as we do, it was accessible to us.

-robbie
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